July 31, 2013

31/07/2013: Monsoon-sown grain production in India; Australian grain donation; Cellulosic ethanol project

India's grain production may soon hit record figures thanks to monsoon-sown grain. Rice and corn planting figures have increased as a result of one of the best starts to the rainy season since 1994. A high that could potentially ease inflation in Asia’s third-largest economy.

The production of crops from corn to rice and barley may exceed the all-time high of 131.3 million metric tons in the 2011-2012 season and last year’s 128.2 million tons, Tariq Anwar, junior agriculture minister, told reporters in New Delhi.
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Grain Trade Australia has set up a new grain donation/collection project. It is expected that farmers will donate up to three thousand tonnes of grain, which will be processed into breakfast cereal; pasta; flour and bread.

"When growers deliver grain to the receival site, they are able to donate one or two tonnes or what ever it may be to the Foodbank. The growers then get a tax deductible receipt based on the current market value of the grain," Geoff Honey, chief executive officer of Grain Trade Australia told ABC Rural. 

Quad County Corn Processors has revealed a groundbreaking new cellulosic bolt-on ethanol plant to be opened in Galva, Iowa, USA. The Adding Cellulosic Ethanol (ACE) project will turn corn kernel fiber, a cellulosic feedstock, into high-octane, clean-burning ethanol. 

The new facility is expected to produce 2 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol from a feedstock already onsite. 
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Long grain rice from the United States
Long grain rice from the United States (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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